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A low opinion of these people. >> astra: well, we're generalizing now, tony. >> anthony: i'm all for that. [ laughter ] everybody in seattle is a musician, a serial killer or a chef as far as i'm concerned, so. >> anthony: in a lot of ways, this was always a company town. you know, boeing, before boeing it was a logging town. the new company is tech and it is flooding money into the place. i look out my hotel room window and i mean there are cranes as far as the eye can see. >> dustin: you realize, like, okay, all those cranes out there are for high-rise condos, they're for a certain type of p...

With three restaurants in town, they know what they're doing. >> anthony: are you eating this whole? head, tail, bones and all? >> knute: yes. ♪ >> anthony: whole local smelt, flash-fried and served with pepperoncini sambal aioli. local dungeness crab, cooked and chilled with pickled ginger sauce. and oysters, lots of oysters. >> anthony: so seattle has been, for a very long time, considered one of the more foodie, for lack of a better word, foodie cities. >> knute: yeah. >> anthony: if you ask people why, generally they said the sheer abundance of really good ingredients. >> knute: yeah, ex...

♪ darkness shining then disappearing ♪ ♪ day follows night night follows day ♪ ♪ goodbye goodbye to beauty ♪ ♪ goodbye goodbye to beauty ♪ >> anthony: are you at all sentimental about how seattle used to be? >> mark: you know, i guess it's sort of like being sentimental about grade school or, you know, any time in your life that isn't around anymore. i miss some of the guys that were around then that aren't

>> capitol hill is seattle's established gay-borhood, going back to the mid-1960's. old-school cool but with every passing day -- change. "the hill" has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. >> anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? >> john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. ...

Have dated a couple of tech boys. >> is their personal hygiene an issue? >> astra: like the nerdier tech boys will have that smell. that mildewy smell. you know what i'm talking about? >> anthony: wow, you really have a low opinion of these people. >> astra: well, we're generalizing now, tony. >> anthony: i'm all for that. [ laughter ] everybody in seattle is a musician, a serial killer or a chef as far as i'm concerned, so. >> anthony: in a lot of ways, this was always a company town. you know, boeing, before boeing it was a logging town. the new company is tech and it is flooding money into ...